FBA fees are a matter of great concern to sellers. In addition to the head-end fees, FBA warehousing will also incur related fees. The total cost formula for FBA is
FBA fees = Amazon logistics delivery fees + monthly warehousing fees + inventory configuration service fees
(1) Logistics delivery fees: the fees charged by Amazon when using FBA for delivery, generally charged per piece. The fee per piece is related to the weight and size of the product. Moreover, the logistics and delivery costs will be adjusted at different times. For example, recently, Amazon North America integrated the delivery costs and stipulated that from February 22, 2017, “order processing fee, “pickup and packaging fee”, “first weight and additional weight fee” will be combined into one item – delivery fee (charged per piece).
For the logistics and delivery costs of the European site, sellers who already have a store can search and view it in the European site store background. Sellers who have not opened a store can log in to the global store website (https://gs.amazon.cn/) to learn about Amazon’s logistics costs.
(2) Monthly storage fees: Amazon’s products can be divided into standard size and super-standard size according to size; according to nature, they can be divided into media products and non-media products. Most of the goods sold by sellers are non-media products of standard size. When sellers use FBA to ship goods and use FBA warehouse services, they need to pay FBA warehouse rent, which is charged monthly by volume (cubic feet) and according to proportion, and there will be 1 or 2 adjustments every year. For example, the US site recently stipulated that from February 22, 2017 Starting from , Amazon’s logistics fees will change. The changed charges are shown in Figure 7.1.
For the European site’s storage fee standards, sellers who already have a store can search and view them in the European site’s store backend. Sellers who have not opened a store can log in to the global store website to learn about Amazon’s storage fees.
(3) Inventory configuration service fee: also known as the warehouse consolidation fee. When the seller switches the delivery method to FBA, Amazon will randomly distribute the seller’s products to 1 to 3 warehouses. Amazon defaults to warehouse consolidation. If the seller feels that warehouse consolidation will increase their head-end costs, they can set up warehouse consolidation before switching to FBA delivery. In other words, if you do not set up warehouse consolidation, you do not have to pay this inventory configuration service fee. If you set up warehouse consolidation, you will need to pay it. It is charged on a per-piece basis, and the specific fee depends on the number of destinations selected.